But what will the influential director’s next game be?
Just over a year ago, Shinji Mikami - he of directing the originalResident EvilandResident Evil 4fame - was confirmed to beleaving Tango Gameworks, the studio that he had co-founded over a decade earlier to create a modern successor to hissurvival-horrorclassics,The Evil Within.
A year on, it seems that Mikami has started up another new studio, as revealed by a somewhat surprising source: the credits forShadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered, thepolished re-release of his cult shooter collabwithNo More Heroescreator Suda51.
As spotted byGematsu,Mikami’s bio on the Hella Remastered sitenods toward the developer’s legendary status as the director of Resident Evil and Resident Evil 4, as well as producer of the intervening numbered instalments in the horror series, during his time at Capcom, before going on to head up development of The Evil Within and executive-producefirst-person spirit-puncher Ghostwire: Tokyoanddelightful rhythm-action surprise Hi-Fi Rushat Tango.
The bio ends up simply stating that Mikami “founded a new company called KAMUY after departing from Tango Gameworks”, giving us the first news about what the influential dev has been up to since last October, when he indicated that his non-compete clause with Tango had come to an end.
Now that I’ve broken the spell of non-competition on myself, I guess I should get to work.
“Now that I’ve broken the spell of non-competition on myself, I guess I should get to work,” MikamiX-edat the time.
What Mikami and KAMUY might be working on, however, is another question entirely. A Japanese company listing suggests the studio was set up in October last year, so it’s likely to be very early.
